Men's Tennis

FSC Doubles Teams Take One Runner-Up, Three Fifth Place Finishes at FIT Invitational

Sep 16, 2016

MELBOURNE - The Florida Southern men's tennis team got its Fall portion of the 2016-17 underway with doubles competition in the Panther Tennis Invitational here Friday. The Moccasins had one runner-up finish and three fifth-place finishes in the three flights.

In Flight 1, FSC's duo of Fabian Lundberg and Miguel Alvarez-Hevia were defeated 8-3 in their opening set by JJ Clark and Tjimon Louisy of the host FIT Panthers. Lundberg and Alvarez-Hevia rebounded with an 8-4 victory over Victor Appelquist and Matt Spasic of Eckerd College before taking fifth place honors with a 9-8(3) win over Philipp Hoffmann and Rafael Lenz of Palm Beach Atlantic.

In Flight 2, the Moccasin team of Oscar Soderlund and Derek Bell captured their opening round win with an 8-5 decision over Austin Causey and Silviu Solomon of FIT. The duo then beat Gerard Carpinell and James Flanagan of FIT before falling 8-1 in the championship match to PBAU's Thomas Salmon and Pietro DeSilva. Also in Flight 2, Blaine Miller and Matt Matsuyama dropped their opening match, 8-5, to Jesus Amezcua and Samir Chikahoui of Eastern Florida State College. The FSC pair came back to take a 8-3 win over Andrew Scott and Marco Rivera of Webber, before capturing fifth place with an 8-6 win over Eddie Lewis and Will Stone of Eckerd.

In Flight 3, FSC's Mark Bucknam and Lance Francisco were defeated, 8-4, in their opening round match by Bernardo Ferreira and Carlos Niemyer of Palm Beach Atlantic. The FSC duo then posted a 9-7 win over Cameron Sanson and Lee Schmidt of Florida Tech before taking fifth place when Bruno Alves and Rob Vazquez defaulted.